Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-22

inhabitants than IN any other city OF the
country. Washington remained st Ports
mouth four days, during which time there
was continued round Of dinners, parties,
balls and public addresses. At ball he
was introduced TO more than seventy
ladies, but whether he led one out IN the
stately minuet, IS was sometimes his
custom the historian of the occasion does
not inform us.
November he left Portsmouth for
New York. His route was through the
southern part of New Hampshire to
Sprirefeld, MSS , and thence to Hart-
ford He reached New York November
IS, having been absent twenty-nine days.
Mrs. Washington did not accompany him
on this tour. AT er the acceptance of
the constitution by Rhode Island in
1880, Washington, in August of that
yesr, made visit to Newport, accom-
panied by Jefferson, his Secretary OF
State, George Clinton, Governor Of New
York, and a number of other distin
guished persons from various parts OF
the union. The Rhode Islanders gave
them grand reception, the festivities
lasting for number of days. The party
then returned to New York.
In the first of these tours the President
wss generally addressed and spoken OF as
"His Highness." In 1870, however, Con-
sress settled that no title whatever should
be given the chief magistrate, and that be
should be addressed simply as MIR. Presi-
dent or the President.
The third tour was made in the spring
of 1871, when he took long Journey to
the south He left Philadelphia In the
month of March and travelled, as before,
in his own private carriage. Indeed,
there was no other way of making COM
Portable journey in those days. Rail-
roads were unknown, and the stage
coaches travelled only between the pl Incl
pal cities. When he reached Annapolis
the Governor of Maryland met him and
he was entertained at public dinner and
ball. He was then escorted by great
cevalcade to Georgetown, whence he
proceeded to Mount Vernon, where he
remained q week. From there he
proceeded to Fredericksburg, thence
to Richmond, Halifax, Nerderne, Will
mington, Charleston, Augusta, Savannah,
and back sgsin through Columbia and
Camden to Mount Vernon. Every where
ne was greeted with immense enthusi-
asm, the people turning out en- masse.
Public dinners, balls and receptions were
everywhere given him, and all seemed to
vie in according honor to the Chief
Magistrate of the Union. While at
some days with the engineers ano
federal city on the Potomac, which has
since been known as Washington, bur
which was not then named. He arrived
in Philadelphia July 26, 1871, having been
absent three months, and during that
period performed journey OF nearly
1890 miles. The tour was accomplished
without meeting with any interruption by
sickness, bad weather or accident, and
was extremely gratifying to the Presi-
dent. He was enabled to judge of the
attitude of all classes of citizens toward
the general government, ana he saw that
their good disposition was pleasing pre-
sage of their future happiness.
President John Adams never made any
special tours. During the most of his
term the seat of government remained in
Philadelphia, and whenever congress ad-
iourned he would fly the city and return
TO Brsintree, Mase., his home, but he
passed back and forth as privately as
possible.
Jeff~rson and Madison made no tours,
but took their vacations at their homes
the one at Monticello and the other at
Montpelier.
In imitation of Washington, Monroe,
soon after his Inauguration, made tour
orthwsrd. One of the principal objects
of the Journey was to conciliate the Fed
erals, 8, whose opposition was still
strong, but the ostensible object was to
examine the FORTH cations and harbors of
he United States. He was not accom-
panied by any members OF his cabinet,
put took with him General Swift, chief
engineer of the army, and q private Sec
rotary. He set out from Washington
May 81, 1917, travelling in his own con-
veyance, first visiting Baltimore, then
Philadelphia, New York and the New
England states. Hospital les were show
cred upon him as he advanced, which be-
came pageant in which all prominent
citizens shared, regardless Of political
differences Dewitt Clinton and Rufus
King, political antagonists, participated
IN the welcome at New York. In Boston,
where the occasion became q national
Jubilee, Harrison Gray Otis, who had
been member of the Hartford convention,
received him with eloquent sAlutation.
The leading Federalists, with josiah
Quincy at their head, We'd in personal at
tentions to the President with the most
noted of the Republicans. He visited
Gore, Perkins, Pickering and other prom
inent Federalists and hobnobbed with
men Of both parties as If the past should
be forgotten. 1t was in Boston at this
time that the phrase "The era of good
feeling" was first started, and this term
was subsequently applied to the whole
eight years of Monroe's administration.
Three months and q half were taken up
with this journey, during which time
the President visited the chief cities
of the Atlantic seaboard IS far as
Portland, traversed New Hampshire,
Vermont and New York, and went
west as far as Detroit and then returned
to Washington by way Of GAINESVILLE,
Pittsburg and FrederIcktown. Every
where there were receptions and speeches,
| dinners and assemblies, and all the people
greeted him with the most joyous &C
claim. In the professions and grand en-
trees he rode on horseback, clad in the
continental buff and blue. The northern
trip was followed by one to the southern
states in 1919 The President went as fsr
sOuth Ss Augusta thence to Nashville